1 Kings 5:13-16
Conscription of Laborers
13Now aKing Solomon ▼▼ Lit raised up
levied forced laborers from all Israel; and the forced laborers ▼▼ Lit was
numbered 30,000 men. 14He sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 a month in relays; they were in Lebanon a month and two months at home. And dAdoniram was over the forced laborers. 15Now eSolomon had 70,000 ▼▼ Or burden bearers
transporters, and 80,000 hewers of stone in the mountains, 16 gbesides Solomon’s 3,300 chief deputies who were over the ▼▼ Lit work
project and who ruled over the people who were doing the work.
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